if anyone's interested - next year's Stratford season

[fox]

I meant to take note while I was up there, and didn't, but I've hunted through the press releases and found the announcement of next year's lineup.

Festival Theatre

• The Tempest (with Christopher Plummer as Prospero, so it'll be a tough ticket and there will inevitably be applause the moment he appears, which I hate, but I'll go anyway, of course)
  
• As You Like It (with Brent Carver as Jaques, hurrah)
  
• Kiss Me, Kate (which probably not, but I might change my mind at some later date)
  
• Dangerous Liaisons (which I might go see in any given year apart from I think my schedule will already be so packed I might not be able to)

Avon Theatre

• Evita (I might be persuaded depending who's in it, but I suspect I won't be able to talked into going unless someone hands me a free ticket and arranges for there to be nothing else I'd rather do)
  
• Peter Pan (the play, thank god, since they've used up their musical slots, and depending who's in it I might give it a look)

Tom Patterson

• The Winter's Tale (yay, yay; I have an unreasonable affection for this play)
  
• Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (with Brent Carver, making two Ja(c)ques in one season for him, heh; I'm not sure I'll have time for this, though, alas)
  
• For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (which I imagine is an instance of their continuing to support Canadian playwrights, a practice I endorse, but not sure I've got room for this play on my agenda)

Studio

• The Two Gentlemen of Verona (this will be the play that finally gets me into their Studio Theatre, where I have not yet had occasion to go; the less-frequent Shakespeares, your Two Gents and your Cymbelines and your Timons of Athens and so on, I feel like if I get a chance to see them, I ought to take it, because who knows when another opportunity will come up? This might also be the first time that I am eager to see 100% of the Shakespeares they're doing in a given season. Huh.)
  
• King of Thieves (see above re: Canadian playwrights; this is evidently an adaptation of Beggar's Opera, moved from London to New York, and is a "play with songs", and basically, spare me)
  
• Do Not Go Gentle (Geraint Wyn Davies' one-man show about the life of Dylan Thomas, which, GWD aside -- and I do like him very much, plus, I dare you to find someone more Welsh to do this thing, assuming you want it done [g] -- is likely to be unbearably depressing, don't you think?, I mean, Dylan effing Thomas, in addition to my general low threshold for one-person shows. So, no.)

So that's looking like the following for me, at this early date:

yes

• The Tempest
  
• As You Like It
  
• The Winter's Tale
  
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona

reserving judgment

• Dangerous Liaisons
  
• Jacques Brel ...
  
• Peter Pan

no

• Kiss Me, Kate
  
• For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again

hell no

• Evita
  
• King of Thieves
  
• Do Not Go Gentle

Year-ahead planning concludes. Message ends. :-)